Taleban gunmen assassinated an Afghan district chief and a school headmaster in southern Kandahar province, a government spokesman said on Wednesday, the latest victims of militant violence.
Separately, two French soldiers of the Nato-led peacekeeping force were wounded on Wednesday in a roadside bomb blast during a patrol north of the capital, a statement from the force said. It said the wounds were not life threatening.
Taleban militants are not active in the area, but there have been several attacks in the past against foreign peacekeepers since they were stationed in Kabul after the Taleban were driven from power in 2001.
Kandahar's Arghandab district chief was gunned down in a mosque late on Tuesday evening and Haji Abdul Lalai, a school headmaster of another district, was shot dead earlier in the day, interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanezai said.